music-as-therapy-salon

tags :: R:music, R:art, R:salons

Creative process as analagous to the 12-step process of a Heroe’s Journey
Aristotlean idea of catharsis
Internal vs. external rhythms and how the dissonance can cause anxiety. Resonance of these rhythm
- Being aware of your internal R:rhythm helps you know yourself
- Being subservient to someone else’s rhythm can be a bit wrecking?
- Controlling someone else’s rhythm can give you power over them
Finding art that resonates with your rhythm
Humans experience emotions before they know how to communicate. There is a sort of helplessness arising from it
- Overwhelming emotion + inability to communicate –> can come across as passion, cathartic art
- 19th century aesthetic - R:sublime - Edmund Burke - https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2015/03/02/edmund-burke-and-the-sublime/
Manichean worldview can prevent you from making good art
- Good art often comes from a place of ambiguity, immorality and such
- https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/01/britain-national-theater-politics-challenges/603973/
Bad art prevents you from trusting yourself/your emotions as opposed to good art, which reinforces something about yourself
Art “works” when it captures some aspect of subjective human experience that is true
Art requires trust. As an audience, you are being led down an immersive experience, and you can go through with it only if a certain amount of trust is established
- Versimilitude is good. And something that’s the other end of the spectrum i.e., truly unrealistic
https://www.amazon.com/Transfiguration-Commonplace-Philosophy-Art/dp/0674903463

How much do gatekeepers play a role?
Experiencing art alone vs. experiencing with other people
- Introversion vs. extroversion
Shared experience where everyone is able to preserve their internal rhythm
Art as motion; a tool for moving on either physically, or in a semantic/emotional sense.
Art allows us a look into the state of the artist, but also the state of a society.